After studying with Benoît Giaux and Élise Gäbele in Namur, Jodie Devos receives a Master of Art degree in 2013 at the Royal Academy of Music of London in Lillian Watson’s class. She also attended master classes with H. Deutsch, J. Streets, D. Denize, C. Eda-Pierre or M. Minkowski. She is generously supported by Asbl Do Musica and the Thirionet funds.
In 2014, she is awarded the second prize and the audience prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition. She is also the prizewinner of several national competitions, such as the Bell’Arte competition, the Thirionet Funds, the Nouveaux Talents de l’Art lyrique and the Jacques Dôme Prize. She is nominated Artiste Jeune Talent for the year 2015 by the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA).
Throughout her young career, she appears under the direction of esteemed conductors such as Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Christian Arming, Paolo Arrivabeni, Roland Boer, Laurent Campellone, Laurence Equilbey, Mikko Franck, Emmanuelle Haïm, Philippe Jordan, Dmitri Jurowski, Louis Langrée, Enrique Mazzola, Marc Minkowski, François-Xavier Roth, Christophe Rousset, Guy van Waas… and in productions designed by David Bobée, Romeo Castellucci, David Lescot, Denis Podalydès, Emilio Sagi, Bob Wilson…
Jodie Devos gives concerts and recitals all over the world, in countries like Belgium (Gent, Antwerpen, Brussels), France (Paris), Germany (Düsseldorf), Italy (Venice), the Netherlands (Maastricht), India (Mumbay), Canada (Québec), Poland (Katowice), the United States (New-York) and also on tour in Brasil. She also performed in several festivals (Estivales en Médoc, Juillet Musical de Saint-Hubert, Mostly Mozart, Saint-Riquier, Stavelot, Violon sur le sable).
In 2014, she joins the Opéra Comique Academy, in Paris, where she could be heard in La Chauve-souris (Ida and then Adèle) and Les Mousquetaires au couvent. She also sang at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina), Orphée aux Enfers (Eurydice) and Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna), at the Opéra of Montpellier in L’Enfant et les sortilèges (le Feu, le Rossignol and la Princesse), L’Hirondelle inattendue by Laks as well as in Geneviève de Brabant by Offenbach.
She makes her debuts in Lakmé (title role) and Lucie de Lammermoor (title role) in Tours, she also sings Pelléas et Mélisande (Yniold), Les Indes Galantes (Amour and Zaïre) and Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Olympia) at the Paris National Opera, Die Zauberflöte (Königin der Nacht) in Caen, Dijon, Limoges and in concert version at the Philharmonie de Paris with Les Talens Lyriques conducted by Christophe Rousset, but also at La Monnaie in Brussels and the Paris National Opera, Le Timbre d’argent (Rosa) by Saint-Saëns and La Nonne sanglante (Arthur) by Gounod at the Opéra Comique, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Blondchen) in Monte-Carlo, Guillaume Tell (Jemmy) at the Chorégies d’Orange, Dialogues des Carmélites (Soeur Constance) in Toulouse, Le Comte Ory (Comtesse Adèle), La Fille du régiment (Marie), Rigoletto (Gilda), Mignon (Philine), Lakmé (title part) and Hamlet (Ophélie) in Liège, La Vie Parisienne (Gabrielle) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and in Tours, the world creation of On purge bébé by Philippe Boesmans in Brussels, Lucie de Lammermoor(Lucie) and Le Comte Ory (Comtesse Adèle) at the Opéra de Québec and Fantasio (Elsbeth) at the Opéra Comique...
In concert, she sings La Chauve-souris, la Chouette, une Pastourelle with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and le Feu, le Rossignol and la Princesse with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo in L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Monsieur Beaucaire by Messager with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Pygmalion by Rameau conducted by Christophe Rousset in Potsdam, opera arias by Charles Gounod with the Orchestre National de France, Le Chalet by Adam in Toulon, Der Schauspieldirektor (Frau Herz) at the Tonhalle Zürich, Mahler Symphony No. 4 and Mozart Requiem with the Orchestre national de Belgique, Ein Sommernachtstraum by Mendelssohn with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Orphée et Eurydice with Les Talens Lyriques at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Mozart Requiem in Brussels and in New York for the Mostly Mozart Festival, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with the Morphing Chamber Orchestra and Mozart C Minor Mass with the Belgian National Orchestra, La Fille du regiment (Marie), L’Elisir d’amore (Adina) and Pergolesi Stabat mater at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Zoroastre (Amélite) on tour with Les Ambassadeurs, Britten’s Les Illuminations and Poulenc’s Stabat Mater with the Orchestre National de Lille in Lille and at the Festival de Saint-Denis and A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams with the Orchestre National de France and Hamlet (Ophélie) at the Festival de Radio France, Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42at the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova.
She also gives recitals in Padova, at the Théâtre Impérial in Compiègne, at the Salle Gaveau, at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, at the Flâneries musicales de Reims…
Jodie Devos records exclusively for Alpha Classics, Paris. Her first solo CD Offenbach Colorature (Alpha Classics) is unanimously acclaimed by critics and is rewarded with a Diapason d’or and a Diamant de platine Opéra Magazine. Her following recording And love said is dedicated to English songs. She also records Pergolesi’s Stabat mater with Le Concert de la loge and Bijoux perdus with the Brussels Philharmonic.
Jodie Devos dies of breast cancer in Paris on June 16, 2024.
